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Grape Pest Survey - 4th Week of September

This article is our last post for this grape season. Harvest is complete at all of our locations. We caught a few grape berry moths at the muscadine site in Rowan Co. and again found one glassy…

Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of September

As harvest continues and we get close to the end of the season, we are finishing the insect scouting at our locations. At this time, only one of the Southwest locations in Rowan Co. will continue to…

Grape Pest Survey - 1st Week of September

Harvest keeps going in a full swing, and about half of our locations are completely harvested with the rest to conclude soon. Due to the hurricane, some vineyards in eastern NC finished harvest a bit…

Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of August

Our first vinifera location, in Rowan Co., began harvest this past week, and as the fruit were gone, we captured the grape berry moth again. This suggests that perhaps our traps have become more…

Grape Pest Survey- 5th Week of July

Glassy winged sharpshooter captures are very low or zero in locations with previous captures. This suggests we are between generations. This also appears to be the case for another Pierce's Disease…

Clusters of ripening grapes on a vine branch in a vineyard

Grape Pest Survey- 4th Week of July

As we reach the end of July, more fields started to ripen for both muscadines and vinifera grapes, and although Grape berry moth is a key pest during this time, it continues to be present in low…

Grape Pest Survey - 3rd Week of July

Grapes are starting to ripen, including those at our location in Currituck Co. This week we continue to catch grape berry moth in Rowan Co. but also, in Wilkes and Currituck Co. Their presence is…

Hand holding a cluster of unripe green grapes on a grapevine with leaves

Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of July

The grapes at our monitoring sites continue to grow and are getting close to full size. This week, we caught grape berry moth at our Rowan Co. location, although in very low numbers. In other…

Row of grapevines on trellis with green grape clusters in a grassy vineyard

Grape Pest Survey - 4th Week of June

As the grapes grow, we again started to catch grape berry moth in one of our Northwest locations (Wilkes Co.), although at low numbers. Captures were zero in the rest of locations.Glassy-winged…

Grape Pest Survey- 3rd Week of June

Glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) detections continue in both of our Northeast sites, in Perquimans and Currituck Co., and we captured our first GWSS for this season in one of our Southeast…